DRUG ARREST: A 40-year-old man from Clarkston was arrested for drug possession after he was found under the influence by Battle Creek police. Officers were called to the Best Western motel at 5090 Beckley Road at 10:33 p.m. Thursday by an employee. She told officers the man appeared to be intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. She observed him knocking on room doors, bumping into walls and removing his pants near the soft drink machines. Police said the man seemed confused about where he was and what he had ingested. He first told officers he took a prescription medication but then admitted to using methamphetamine in Kalamazoo and said he had been awake for three or four days. Police said they found marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and meth and a pipe used to smoke meth in the man's backpack and he was arrested on possession charges of those illegal drugs.

ASSAULT: Battle Creek police are investigating an assault complaint reported by a man, 64, in the 100 block of Upton Avenue at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.